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@iamthecatman.bsky.social
Systems/IT library ronin, wandering the internet looking for work.
Cats, libraries, labor rights, maps, and books.
He/him/his. Illinois USA.
Cats, libraries, labor rights, maps, and books.
He/him/his. Illinois USA.
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@iamthecatman.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Hi library world. If you’re in need of a remote systems librarian or someone to analyze your collection, patron traffic, census data, or other library analysis, please let me know. I’m also good at ILS training! #libraries #libraryjobs
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To me, casually mentioning that you use chatGPT is like casually mentioning that you had Chick-fil-A for lunch or shop at Hobby Lobby- I will just low key mentally dismiss anything you have to say forever.
June 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
To me, casually mentioning that you use chatGPT is like casually mentioning that you had Chick-fil-A for lunch or shop at Hobby Lobby- I will just low key mentally dismiss anything you have to say forever.
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Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
Opinion: “A total library would be a bibliographic nightmare, like Borges’s Library of Babel. But neither is a library a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them.”
✍️ Andrew Hui
#highered #EduSky
✍️ Andrew Hui
#highered #EduSky
Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture
A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
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Posting the IMDB link with the full cast and crew. I am so proud and grateful to everyone who worked so hard on this show.
www.imdb.com/title/tt3044...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3044...
Murderbot (TV Series 2025– ) - Full cast & crew - IMDb
Murderbot (TV Series 2025– ) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
www.imdb.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Posting the IMDB link with the full cast and crew. I am so proud and grateful to everyone who worked so hard on this show.
www.imdb.com/title/tt3044...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3044...
The first two episodes of Murderbot are on Apple TV. I am happy with how they turned out. Obviously, it’s always difficult to adapt books to shows or movies, but they’ve done well thus far. Some character thoughts below, no spoilers.
May 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The first two episodes of Murderbot are on Apple TV. I am happy with how they turned out. Obviously, it’s always difficult to adapt books to shows or movies, but they’ve done well thus far. Some character thoughts below, no spoilers.
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Murderbot is on! My review of the first two eps will presumably be live on Reactor tomorrow, so all I'll say now is that if you like the books or like a little dark humor with your sci-fi, then this show should be on your To-Watch list.
May 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Murderbot is on! My review of the first two eps will presumably be live on Reactor tomorrow, so all I'll say now is that if you like the books or like a little dark humor with your sci-fi, then this show should be on your To-Watch list.
I’ve been looking for work for more than a year now. Thankful for my very part-time minimum wage job and the generosity of our families or we would be completely boned.
March 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I’ve been looking for work for more than a year now. Thankful for my very part-time minimum wage job and the generosity of our families or we would be completely boned.
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Technology is not Neutral but Elon Musk does look like a literal Milk Hotel.
Today in technology is never neutral news
UPDATE: Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary or not, sources say.
February 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Technology is not Neutral but Elon Musk does look like a literal Milk Hotel.
Introduce yourself with 4 video games.
February 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Introduce yourself with 4 video games.
I sometimes miss working in academic ILL. I loved sending out a scan or pdf and getting a ‘wow, I JUST sent this’ response.
I just got an I.L.L. chapter scan request in just 10 minutes total. Thank you @archive.org !
February 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I sometimes miss working in academic ILL. I loved sending out a scan or pdf and getting a ‘wow, I JUST sent this’ response.
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Yup. I've been online for 30+ years and the point I make frequently is that the version of me you see here is tuned for being online: It's me, but certain aspects of my personality are dialed up and others are dialed down, and some parts of my life don't make it online at all. Not false, just tuned.
I think I heard Hank Green in a video once say "all of whats on line is really me but NOT all of the real me is online." And I wish more people realized that about themselves and others. Its healthy to have parts of your life not online.
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yup. I've been online for 30+ years and the point I make frequently is that the version of me you see here is tuned for being online: It's me, but certain aspects of my personality are dialed up and others are dialed down, and some parts of my life don't make it online at all. Not false, just tuned.
LinkedIn is a necessary awful while job hunting. Do you know how hard it is to keep the ai garbage and tech bros out of your feed? ‘Cause I have been searching for almost a year now and still haven’t managed it.
February 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
LinkedIn is a necessary awful while job hunting. Do you know how hard it is to keep the ai garbage and tech bros out of your feed? ‘Cause I have been searching for almost a year now and still haven’t managed it.
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No company is "good", some are just less awful in public. We gotta stop valorizing corporations. Again, shop where you want. I'm just asking not to attach morality to it. You aren't Resisting by shopping at Kroger.
January 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
No company is "good", some are just less awful in public. We gotta stop valorizing corporations. Again, shop where you want. I'm just asking not to attach morality to it. You aren't Resisting by shopping at Kroger.
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The response to this picture has been 99% "cool" and 1% panicked mini-machos attempting the dude-to-dude version of negging, which is working as well as you might think. A lovely way to find out who needs to be blocked here on the Sky. in that respect I am certainly getting value from this shirt.
January 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The response to this picture has been 99% "cool" and 1% panicked mini-machos attempting the dude-to-dude version of negging, which is working as well as you might think. A lovely way to find out who needs to be blocked here on the Sky. in that respect I am certainly getting value from this shirt.
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Fred Rogers does seem to have been a genuinely decent human being and also he would probably be the first to tell you not to idolize him, but to find in yourself what is beautiful and special and hold that up to the light so that you can see it clearly, and can everyone else.
Is it okay if I still idolize Mister Rogers?
January 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fred Rogers does seem to have been a genuinely decent human being and also he would probably be the first to tell you not to idolize him, but to find in yourself what is beautiful and special and hold that up to the light so that you can see it clearly, and can everyone else.
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Starting off the week coming in hot....Library Staff Are Not Superheroes: a Guest Post by @tuphlos.bsky.social
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/libr...
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/libr...
Library Staff Are Not Superheroes: a Guest Post by Robin Bradford
Just before the new year, Robin and I were chatting and she sent me this text: "Can I come to a guest post on our blog that libraries are N...
raforall.blogspot.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Starting off the week coming in hot....Library Staff Are Not Superheroes: a Guest Post by @tuphlos.bsky.social
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/libr...
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/libr...
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I would prefer not to spend my own "masculine energy" on being a craven suckmonkey to a shambling pile of felonies and grievances, but maybe Zuckerberg's masculine energy comes with a side of humiliation fetish, that's not something a $200 billion net worth can change, some dudes just like groveling
Never has masculinity appeared so weak.
January 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I would prefer not to spend my own "masculine energy" on being a craven suckmonkey to a shambling pile of felonies and grievances, but maybe Zuckerberg's masculine energy comes with a side of humiliation fetish, that's not something a $200 billion net worth can change, some dudes just like groveling
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Its technically a cat comic
January 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Its technically a cat comic
I’ve had customers apologize to me at the bookstore because ‘they don’t buy a lot of books and are normally library people’ or share similar sentiments. Don’t apologize for that, I am too. Bookstores and libraries aren’t competitors.
January 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’ve had customers apologize to me at the bookstore because ‘they don’t buy a lot of books and are normally library people’ or share similar sentiments. Don’t apologize for that, I am too. Bookstores and libraries aren’t competitors.
A bookstore is the least awful form of retail that I can imagine, but I miss my libraries. It’s hard to adjust to a ‘sell things’ mentality after so long in libraries.
January 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A bookstore is the least awful form of retail that I can imagine, but I miss my libraries. It’s hard to adjust to a ‘sell things’ mentality after so long in libraries.
WaniKani has been incredibly helpful for learning Kanji, more than any other source, including the Hesig books (which I have and are good, too).
WaniKani
Web-based app that teaches you kanji.
Teaches beginners using mnemonics and SRS flashcards.
Subscription based
www.wanikani.com
Web-based app that teaches you kanji.
Teaches beginners using mnemonics and SRS flashcards.
Subscription based
www.wanikani.com
WaniKani, a kanji learning application by Tofugu
Learn Japanese kanji the effective way!
www.wanikani.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
WaniKani has been incredibly helpful for learning Kanji, more than any other source, including the Hesig books (which I have and are good, too).
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The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
September 24, 2024 at 10:02 PM
The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
The stress and chaos of job hunting plus the stress of the holidays and a last-minute retail job put my tabletop roleplaying game hobby on hold. Even when I was off on our scheduled night, I just didn’t have the capacity for it. Looking forward to having some game nights again.
January 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The stress and chaos of job hunting plus the stress of the holidays and a last-minute retail job put my tabletop roleplaying game hobby on hold. Even when I was off on our scheduled night, I just didn’t have the capacity for it. Looking forward to having some game nights again.
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If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:
December 19, 2024 at 4:12 PM
If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:
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There seem to be a number of Americans who don’t know what to do if they find a book they don’t like at the library.
For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide.
action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...
For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide.
action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...
What do I do if I don't like a book at the library?
A handy step-by-step guide.
action.everylibrary.org
December 5, 2024 at 8:04 PM
There seem to be a number of Americans who don’t know what to do if they find a book they don’t like at the library.
For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide.
action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...
For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide.
action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...